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Mackenzie, Alexander, 1833-1898

"History of the Mackenzies, with genealogies of the principal families of the name"


7. Sutherland, Lieutenant Royal Navy, born on the 15th of January,
1818, and lost on board H.M.S. "Victor," in the Gulf of Mexico,
in 1844, unmarried.
8. George, Lieutenant in the Indian Army, born on the 23rd of
February, 1819. He was killed in action on the 14th of October,
1844, unmarried.
9. Charles Frederick Fraser, a Fellow of Caius and Gonville
College, Cambridge, second Wrangler of his year. He entered Holy
Orders and was appointed Archdeacon of Natal, in which colony
he laboured successfully for some years among the Zulus. Coming
home, he was selected as the leader of the Universities Mission
to Central Africa and was afterwards consecrated at Cape Town
as the first Bishop of Central Africa. He subsequently proceeded
to the Zambesi River, where, acting in concert with Dr Livingstone,
he succeeded in liberating a large number of slaves from the
hands of the drivers who were conducting them to the coast, and
some of these liberated slaves formed the nucleus of the Bishop's
first settlement at Magomero. While descending the River Ruo to
meet Dr Livingstone, Bishop Mackenzie's canoe was overturned and
his quinine lost. A short sojourn on a swampy island brought
on a fever, to which he succumbed on the 31st of January, 1862,
without issue.


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